[arachne] Re: handheld printer

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Hi Folks,

On Mon, 25 May 2009 20:51:29 -0500, Glenn Gilbreath Jr. wrote:

> If only we expected them to be usable for the whole of their lives...we exp
> ect FREE support for life, for any add-ons, for new peripherals that were n
> ot designed to work on old gear, etc., and again, for FREE.  An example...U
> SB peripherals such as pointing devices, printers, scanners...very few will
> work in plain DOS, 

  And yet some do !  From MS-DOS 6.20, with a set of USB drivers, I can
access flash cards, a USB remote hard disk drive, USB memory sticks, and 
even my cell phone.

> why would a company attempting to make a profit go to the added expense
> to create drivers compatible with DOS 5 just because a very small group
> of hobbyists just happen to have an ancient 386 or 486 still operating?
> Like I said, I don't know, but sometimes it seems we expect too much.

  And it is the lobbyists that are often the ones to make it happen.
Because they can; because they want to; because they need somethng that
isn't available !

  I seem to remember that the FTP agent I still use was put together by
you, Wizzie, because you needed it to do something that the existing FTP
couldn't do.

Regards,
        Ron


Ron Clarke
AUSREG Consultancy      http://www.ausreg.com
Tadpole Tunes           http://www.tadpoletunes.com
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